Example sentences of "they were [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leeds United they were facing one of the top three English sides playing at the pinnacle of their powers . |
| 2 | By the end of the evening , to Du Camp 's clear disapproval , they were calling one another tu . |
| 3 | If the place failed as links the property was a valuable one , and there was no probability in their losing their money and in the meantime they were receiving three per cent which was as good as if the money were invested in Consols . |
| 4 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 5 | Perhaps Betty had asked some people in and they were enduring one of those breaks in conversation , but the silence went on . |
| 6 | And they were congratulating one of them , what was the two names ? |
| 7 | When they left office , they were training 6,000 people a year . |
| 8 | When they left office , they were training 6,000 young people . |
| 9 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were seeing ten thousand neutrons per cm 3 per second and on 1 March Fleischmann phoned Ron Bullough , the Harwell Chief Scientist , to tell him the news . |
| 10 | It was as if they were volunteering two minutes , silence . |
| 11 | Members of the special constabulary and traffic wardens had been staffing telephones to deal with the ‘ tremendous ’ response from the public : every hour they were taking 150 calls . |
| 12 | Absolutely because in York , in sorry , in Litchfield you have a confirmed greenbelt right up to the boundary , they were pursuing a local plan for the Li the city of Litchfield in isolation from the rest of the district , and there they were promoting seven hundred and fifty houses to be taken out of the greenbelt . |
| 13 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 14 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 15 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | In Ciudad Sandino , a small ‘ new town ’ close to Managua , they were celebrating ten years of literacy work ( 1979–89 ) with an exhibition . |
| 17 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 18 | They were winning three nil three two at the end of it . |
| 19 | They were winning three nil were n't they ? |
| 20 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 21 | We have got good medical facilities , but as you just heard Samantha just saying , they 're destroying that as well , the only people who wanted water meters , is when houses were on ratable value and they were paying two hundred thousand pound for a house at large rates and the water rates was the same house . |
| 22 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 23 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 24 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 25 | Yet here they were needling one another as if the position of an aeroplane 's wings on take-off ; the true nature of Kennedy 's presidency or the price of fish were matters that somehow impinged on their honour or real worth as human beings . |
| 26 | You see well they were employing two over in Holland , we were employing six . |
| 27 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |
| 28 | Well they were knocking one night well gone twelve , about twenty to one I think it was , still banging and hammering , and I 'm sure if I rang him and said look you know pack it up this , he 'd , he 'd say oh I 'm sorry yeah and he will , but you should n't have to do that |
| 29 | Based on we can do they were doing sixty five palette loads a day . |
| 30 | A ) I would n't do it anyway , even if they were doing four , and B ) it would be difficult to keep up the quality over 65 programmes ! |